GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The World Food Program (WFP) said that families in the Gaza Strip do not know where their next meal will come from, amid the suffocating siege imposed by Israel on the Strip for nearly seven weeks.
In a statement posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday, the program urged all parties to prioritize the needs of civilians, protect humanitarian workers, and allow immediate entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.
The UN agency emphasized that families in the Gaza Strip are unsure of their next meal and attached a video clip to its post showing a sign that reads: “The bakery is closed until further notice” and another that says: “Gaza needs food.”
Since March 2, Israel has closed the Gaza Strip’s crossings to food, relief, medical aid, and goods, causing a severe deterioration in the humanitarian conditions of Palestinians, according to governmental, human rights, and international reports.
Two days ago, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a report that the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip over the past seven weeks has been even more intense than the initial period following October 7, 2023.
UNRWA noted that 420,000 people have been newly displaced in the Gaza Strip since March 18 due to renewed Israeli attacks.
In early March 2025, the first phase of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Hamas and Israel—brokered by Egypt and Qatar with US support—came to an end. It had begun on January 19 and was upheld by the Palestinian Movement.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu reneged on starting the second phase and resumed the genocide in the Gaza Strip on March 18, reportedly yielding to the most extremist faction within his right-wing government, according to Israeli media.
Since the resumption of the genocide, 1,827 Palestinians have been killed and 4,828 injured, most of them children and women, according to data published by the Ministry of Health on Sunday.
With US support, Israel has committed acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in over 168,000 Palestinians killed or injured—most of them children and women—and more than 11,000 reported missing.
